Yet pol pot s utopian experiments in social engineering would result in the death of one in every five cambodiansmore than a million people. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Anatomy of a nightmare by philip short in david chandlers excellent biography brother number one from 1993, the author has an eerie feeling of. Anatomy of a nightmare is an exhaustive biography of the mastermind of the khmer rouge. The history of a nightmare new ed by short, philip isbn.
Includes bibliographical references pages 461509 and index. The parallel with khmer rouge atrocities is striking. But the story is well told in this book, awash with beautiful photographs. Book by philip short entitled pol pot, the history of a nightmare.
Philip short s pol pot is an almanac of extermination that achieves the near impossible feat of translating madness into logic. Anatomy of a nightmare contains important warnings. David levering lewis, pulitzer prizewinning author of w. Anatomy of a nightmare ebook written by philip short. This hugely impressive book is more than just the life story of an individual. Anatomy of a nightmare by philip short librarything. Anatomy of a nightmare by philip short a gripping and definitive portrait of the man who headed one of the most enigmatic and terrifying regimes of modern times in the three and a half years of pol pot s rule, more than a million cambodians, a fifth of the countrys. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app.
It documents how easily violence and barbarism can arise when dogmatic political theory is ruthlessly put into practice. A gripping and definitive portrait of the man who headed one of the most enigmatic and terrifying regimes of modern times in the three and a half years of pol pot s rule, more than a million cambodians, a fifth of the countrys population, were executed or died from hunger. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Short is excellent at coining pithy summations of political motives that ring humanly true. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read pol pot. To understand this almost inconceivable mystery, philip short explores pol pot s life from his early years to his death. Penh, the khmer rouge immediately evacuated the capital and all major cities. Pdf pol pot anatomy of a nightmare by philip short. A life, and jonathan spence, in mao zedong, have gone into the archives to pry the big moose head off the wall.
Short spent four years traveling throughout cambodia interviewing the surviving leaders of the khmer rouge movement, many of whom have never spoken before, including pol pot s brotherinlaw and the former khmer rouge head of. Les ebooks kindle peuvent etre lus sur nimporte quel appareil avec lappli gratuite kindle. Anatomy of a nightmare on your kindle in under a minute. Shorts text sparkles with shrewdly plausible inferences mortared into a. Observing pol pot at close quarters during the one and only official visit he ever made abroad, to china in 1975, philip short was struck by the cambodian leaders charm and charisma. Dubois an intelligent and compassionate account of the cambodian nightmare.
Philip short refers to his book on mao in his preface to pol pot. Rewritten in honour of the mayan calendar and it being the final day of the entire world and all that. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. At 560 pages long, it covers the life of saloth sar his original khmer birth name from his fairly privileged childhood to his education academic and political to his taking of power and his life postkhmer rouge. Philip short observed pol pot at close quarters during the one and only of.
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